But a detailed broadside from the Auschwitz Memorial has disputed this, claiming that “the book contains numerous errors and information inconsistent with the facts, as well as exaggerations, misinterpretations and understatements”. “Ninety-five per cent of it is as it happened; researched and confirmed,” Morris told the Guardian earlier this year. But according to the Auschwitz Memorial’s magazine, Memoria, numerous historical details of the camp are wrong. The number of different errors in the book can sometimes create more confusion than understanding Paweł SawickiThe Auschwitz Memorial is not the first to flag concerns about the novel. If this would be a complete fictional story, we could say that the author does not know much about the history of Auschwitz.

Source: The Guardian December 07, 2018 18:06 UTC